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This week I’ll be doing some work with the Irish League of Credit Unions, a group who I’m sure I frustrate a lot as I have been vocal in saying it was bad financial planning when people paying unsecured debts (like CU loans) while not paying their mortgages. On the other hand – and the […]

Almost everybody knows a person who is in a less than ideal relationship and who says to themselves ‘why do they stay with that person?’. There is no simple answer, but then again, how can we be dumbfounded in particular when we suffer the same delusion in general? You see, the same problems haunt us […]

Here’s a bailout worth considering…. f”34k the banks, and start a new one. This is not a novel idea, it’s called capitalism, one of the key things people bang on about is how ‘capitalism has failed’, it hasn’t, politicians have failed by putting national resources behind institutions that scarce warrant the unending support they have received. That we are starting to figure this out only AFTER we have spent all the money, so most of this is about spilt milk, but not all of the milk has been spilt, just this week we blew €600,000,000 on defunct and toxic Anglo (now ‘IBRC’) and on the 1st of October we’ll be blowing €1,000,000,000 on AIB.

We are pleased to be writing for the Sun on Sunday, we think that taking high finance to people on the street in an easy to understand format in plain English is noble work, we hope you enjoy the column and are glad with the big number of questions we are now getting every week.